Etymologies

Middle English, from Late Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, convent, from Greek koinobion, from koinobios, living in community : koinos, common; see kom in Indo-European roots + bios, life; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

I have this halloween latex mask I picked up a couple of years ago: it's sort of a jester-cenobite kind of thing that vaguely suggests some of the costume work in The Cell memo: put that film on shopping list, just for the dreamworld sequences.

Monsieur de Lovenjoul, to foster the tradition of his hermit-like conduct; and to all the jealous women with whom he entertained friendly relations he asserted that his morals were as spotless as those of a cenobite.

About the close of the fourth century the cenobite system was introduced into Europe, and in an astonishingly short space of time spread throughout all the western countries where Christianity had gained a foothold.

By turning antinomian when necessary and staying amongst our fellows, making known our views according to our ability and opportunity, we shall be doing more towards establishing the proper relation between man and sub-man than by turning cenobite and refusing all intercourse and association with our fellows.

He is, in a single individual, the happy combination of several men, that is to say, he is by turns, and as it may be needful, a man indulgent or severe in his preaching; a man of abstinence, or a good feeder; a man of the world, or a cenobite; a man of his breviary, or a courtier.

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" When the holy zenobite gave the signal, all present repeated these songs with the ecstatic convulsions which are so frequently to be seen at camp-meetings" books?id=DOwRAAAAYAAJ Putnam's Monthly Journal Vol 10 page 180 in the article Schamyl and his Harem